Quotes About Growth

My little Asticot, I have abjured absinthe and forsworn cafés. I have broken my new porcelain pipe and have cut my finger-nails. As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of mere inertia.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

None of us are ever who we were yesterday.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Cara untuk menjadi bijaksana adalah tahu apa yang harus dimaafkan.

the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272]

beyond the very extremity of fatigue-distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own,—sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points.

La mayoría de la gente vive en un círculo muy restringido de sus posibilidades. Todos nosotros tenemos reservas de vida en las que ni siquiera soñamos.

A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

Our former selves are never dead. We speak to them, arguing against decisions we know will bring only unhappiness, offering consolation and hope, even though they cannot hear.

the undistributed profits, which rose from 175 million marks in 1932 to five billion marks in 1938, a year in which the total savings in the savings banks amounted to only two billions

irregularly as though it were farm land.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.